Geo-Grid Combined with Concrete and Limestone Columns to Reduce the Embankment Subsidence Located on Inclined Layers of Soft Soil
- 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- 3 Department of Civil Engineering, Noshiravani University of Technology, Babol, Iran
- 4 Department of Civil Engineering, UAE Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dubai, UAE
Abstract
Soft soil has low shear strength and its density is high; construction of embankments on them would cause problems such as large and non-uniform subsidence. One way to avoid these subsidence is using of geo-grid combined with cement and lime columns. Geo-grids due to their tensile strength, and cement and lime columns due to their bearing capacity and their body friction, reduce embankment subsidence. Extensive researches have been done in order to reduce the subsidence of the embankments located on the roads, but few studies have being done about the inclined embankments on soft soil layers. In this paper, the road embankment has been located on inclined soft soil layers; the study will try to reduce embankment subsidence and uniform them using geo-grid combined with cement and lime column subsidence. The results show that the realization of this issue will cause subsidence reduction and uniformity in the embankment surface.
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